well I've moved twice since having them (both times having to get a bellsouth guy to come "fix the lines" and get a new IP address... grr) and they still haven't picked up the modems... I have a bit of a surplus... they tol me exactly when the guy would come for them and exactly what to write on the boxes and they just never showed... wonder what they're worth on ebay now-a-days
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ok... IMHO the only way that people in the US are going to use anything besides unleaded gasoline or diesel is if fuel cells come around. And I'm not talking about the kind that you just have to fill up w/ hydrogen... I'm talking about the ones that'll leach it from the atmosphere... imagine... having to grease your wheel bearings every several thousand miles and that's it.
this is all, of course, presuming that the oil companys don't find a way to squash the research.
in response to how piracy would be easier I have seen numerous people trying to debunk this. well... I gots two things to say on this front...
1) it would most certainly be easier because MOST source code is significantly smaller than the compiled binaries. Don't get me wrong... this isn't always the case, but I'd say it is 99.999% of the time. You could download a multi-million line program's source in a few minutes (modem) as opposed to hours for the binary.
2) It would be impossible to implement anything similar to a CD-KEY based algorythim<sp> because it would take 10 minutes for someone to find the code and basically just reverse it. You'd have no way to enforce (or attempt to) the purchase of your software.
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia has failed to put a five-tonne European communications satellite properly into orbit and it will now circle uselessly until it eventually falls back to Earth, space officials said.
Konstantin Kreidenko, spokesman for Russia's space authority Rosaviakosmos, told Reuters the Astra-1K satellite was stuck in an intermediate orbit after being launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The French-made Astra satellite is the world's biggest communications satellite, with antennae spanning 37 metres. It was due to be used for radio and television broadcasts as well as for mobile telephone and Internet services in western Europe.
"The satellite has not reached its assigned orbit and will now never reach it," Kreidenko said.
Kreidenko said a secondary booster, which was due to propel the satellite to a higher altitude, had malfunctioned and was circling the earth separately from its payload.
The Astra satellite, launched by a Proton rocket, was now doomed to orbit the earth until gravity pulled it back to Earth, he said.
"Both the satellite and the booster will after a while fall back to Earth. Both will burn with maybe small bits reaching the Earth's surface, depending on what materials the satellite was made of," Kreidenko said. "But there is no danger."
In October, a Soyuz cargo rocket, carrying a European satellite, exploded on lift-off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk launch pad. Two days later a Proton rocket successfully blasted a European research laboratory into orbit from Baikonur.
Proton was conceived in the 1960s initially as a heavy-lift rocket to carry bombs.
Russia leases the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome from Kazakhstan, keeping it as its main space base.
Um... Not EVERY x86 MB has all that legacy cruft on it...
Check out Abit. I know of (at least) 4 boards that they make that has no seriel, parallel, ps/2, etc... check out the IT7, IT7-Max, AT7, and the AT7-Max2. They rely on USB, USB2, and IEEE-1394 (firewire) for periphrial usage.
the way that autorotation (from forward flight) works is pretty much the same as how you land an airplane. you basically just let it glide it's way down (applying a little flaps to slow you down and a little aileron/rudder to keep yourself lined up) until you get into ground effect then you pull back and it stalls... setting you on the ground nicely. and yes... all "proper" airplane landings are stalls.
when talking about people not wanting to change don't forget the DVORAK keyboards... they're still vastily superior, but there's only like 1-2 manufacturers left in the US...
well... the problem isn't that they don't tlook the same... the problem is that they both look like crap. I don't care how many different themes people make KDE and GNOME are absolutely atrocious from a usability point of view. Joe User just won't understand them. Microsoft and Apple have spent a great deal of effort (and money) on trying to make their interfaces more usable and to what avail??? Well, my grandfather (who only 2 years ago advertised freely that he couldn't even turn a computer on) is now an avid PC user. Even assuming that he could have gotten the computer set up right under linux (he couldn't have) he wouldn't have used it... it isn't even as intuative as Windows...
sigh... the point is that the don't need to be the same as windows or MacOSX or AmigaOS or BeOS or anything else... they just need to be easily usable.
I can't comment on this particular remote, but my experience with this company's remotes isn't that great. I've had two of their remotes and they both broke w/in a month of purchase (drop test... my 13-14 year old little brother lived w/ me at the time).
As for fluid contamination... didn't last long enough to have a chance at that one (we had a remote for a Zenith TV live through getting dropped in a toilet bowl... don't ask).
It might, very well, mean that they're buying it up to squash it. They have done much for the consumer in the way of our rights (such as forcing the different labels to NOT put the Compact Disc logo on discs that don't meet the Red Book standard). Maybe they're stepping up in support of THEIR technology.
Well if I remember correctly (from my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle days) radioactive ANYTHING glows green... my mouse glows red... and my cold-cathode glows blue...
Does this mean there'll be a warm white light around my case as all times?
it isn't necessarily M$'s fault that you can't just coppy an app from one machine to another. It's the people who wrote the software's fault. There's no reason they couldn't save all they're info in.ini or.xml files... they just choose not too. Granted M$ prefers you do it this way, but since when did anyone do something because someone else thought it was a good idea.
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well I've moved twice since having them (both times having to get a bellsouth guy to come "fix the lines" and get a new IP address... grr) and they still haven't picked up the modems... I have a bit of a surplus... they tol me exactly when the guy would come for them and exactly what to write on the boxes and they just never showed... wonder what they're worth on ebay now-a-days
ok... IMHO the only way that people in the US are going to use anything besides unleaded gasoline or diesel is if fuel cells come around. And I'm not talking about the kind that you just have to fill up w/ hydrogen... I'm talking about the ones that'll leach it from the atmosphere... imagine... having to grease your wheel bearings every several thousand miles and that's it.
this is all, of course, presuming that the oil companys don't find a way to squash the research.
actually it's just a warning about your lunches for the next two weeks... the same thing OVER and OVER.
wait just a minute... you mean to tell me that she has a name besides "mmmmmmm"
in response to how piracy would be easier I have seen numerous people trying to debunk this. well... I gots two things to say on this front...
1) it would most certainly be easier because MOST source code is significantly smaller than the compiled binaries. Don't get me wrong... this isn't always the case, but I'd say it is 99.999% of the time. You could download a multi-million line program's source in a few minutes (modem) as opposed to hours for the binary.
2) It would be impossible to implement anything similar to a CD-KEY based algorythim<sp> because it would take 10 minutes for someone to find the code and basically just reverse it. You'd have no way to enforce (or attempt to) the purchase of your software.
Here's the article (I'm Karma whoring):
MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russia has failed to put a five-tonne European communications satellite properly into orbit and it will now circle uselessly until it eventually falls back to Earth, space officials said.
Konstantin Kreidenko, spokesman for Russia's space authority Rosaviakosmos, told Reuters the Astra-1K satellite was stuck in an intermediate orbit after being launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The French-made Astra satellite is the world's biggest communications satellite, with antennae spanning 37 metres. It was due to be used for radio and television broadcasts as well as for mobile telephone and Internet services in western Europe.
"The satellite has not reached its assigned orbit and will now never reach it," Kreidenko said.
Kreidenko said a secondary booster, which was due to propel the satellite to a higher altitude, had malfunctioned and was circling the earth separately from its payload.
The Astra satellite, launched by a Proton rocket, was now doomed to orbit the earth until gravity pulled it back to Earth, he said.
"Both the satellite and the booster will after a while fall back to Earth. Both will burn with maybe small bits reaching the Earth's surface, depending on what materials the satellite was made of," Kreidenko said. "But there is no danger."
In October, a Soyuz cargo rocket, carrying a European satellite, exploded on lift-off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk launch pad. Two days later a Proton rocket successfully blasted a European research laboratory into orbit from Baikonur.
Proton was conceived in the 1960s initially as a heavy-lift rocket to carry bombs.
Russia leases the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome from Kazakhstan, keeping it as its main space base.
Um... Not EVERY x86 MB has all that legacy cruft on it...
Check out Abit. I know of (at least) 4 boards that they make that has no seriel, parallel, ps/2, etc... check out the IT7, IT7-Max, AT7, and the AT7-Max2. They rely on USB, USB2, and IEEE-1394 (firewire) for periphrial usage.
the way that autorotation (from forward flight) works is pretty much the same as how you land an airplane. you basically just let it glide it's way down (applying a little flaps to slow you down and a little aileron/rudder to keep yourself lined up) until you get into ground effect then you pull back and it stalls... setting you on the ground nicely.
and yes... all "proper" airplane landings are stalls.
In related news it's reported that it cost MS $255 (per copy) to develop Solitare and Mine Sweeper.
when talking about people not wanting to change don't forget the DVORAK keyboards... they're still vastily superior, but there's only like 1-2 manufacturers left in the US...
well... the problem isn't that they don't tlook the same... the problem is that they both look like crap. I don't care how many different themes people make KDE and GNOME are absolutely atrocious from a usability point of view. Joe User just won't understand them. Microsoft and Apple have spent a great deal of effort (and money) on trying to make their interfaces more usable and to what avail??? Well, my grandfather (who only 2 years ago advertised freely that he couldn't even turn a computer on) is now an avid PC user. Even assuming that he could have gotten the computer set up right under linux (he couldn't have) he wouldn't have used it... it isn't even as intuative as Windows...
sigh... the point is that the don't need to be the same as windows or MacOSX or AmigaOS or BeOS or anything else... they just need to be easily usable.
it's the kinda action (wink wink) you can only get from scary bands that like to make noise...
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I can't comment on this particular remote, but my experience with this company's remotes isn't that great. I've had two of their remotes and they both broke w/in a month of purchase (drop test... my 13-14 year old little brother lived w/ me at the time). As for fluid contamination... didn't last long enough to have a chance at that one (we had a remote for a Zenith TV live through getting dropped in a toilet bowl... don't ask).
It might, very well, mean that they're buying it up to squash it. They have done much for the consumer in the way of our rights (such as forcing the different labels to NOT put the Compact Disc logo on discs that don't meet the Red Book standard). Maybe they're stepping up in support of THEIR technology.
Well if I remember correctly (from my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle days) radioactive ANYTHING glows green... my mouse glows red... and my cold-cathode glows blue... Does this mean there'll be a warm white light around my case as all times?
it isn't necessarily M$'s fault that you can't just coppy an app from one machine to another. It's the people who wrote the software's fault. There's no reason they couldn't save all they're info in .ini or .xml files... they just choose not too. Granted M$ prefers you do it this way, but since when did anyone do something because someone else thought it was a good idea.